Vince Weiguang Li
Vince Weiguang Li – Pics and video of Vince Weiguang Li, who beheaded Tim Mclean on a Canada Greyhound bus in a bizarre attack in front of dozens of passengers.
Vince Weiguang Li stabbed and beheaded a total stranger, 22-year old Tim Mclean, who was sitting next to him just listening to his headphones and dozing on the bus.
In the video below, passengers describe fleeing in terror from the Greyhound bus outside Portage la Prairie as the deranged passenger suddenly stabbed the man sleeping next to him, decapitated him and waved the severed head at horrified witnesses standing outside.
The unprovoked assault left 34 men, women and children stranded on the shoulder of the Trans-Canada Highway about 60 miles west of Winnipeg, watching while the bus driver, a passenger and the driver of a passing truck shut the crazed attacker inside the bus with the mangled victim.
“He didn’t do anything to provoke the guy,” said Garnet Caton, 26, a passenger on the bus, which originated in Edmonton and was bound for Winnipeg. “The guy just took a knife out and stabbed him, started stabbing him like crazy and cut his head off.”
“Some people were puking, some people were crying, other people were in shock. . . . Everybody was running, screaming off the bus.”
Caton said Li was only on the bus for a brief time, after boarding in western Manitoba.
Another passenger, Cody Olmstead, 21, told reporters he had smoked a cigarette with Tim McLean earlier in the trip and that McLean boarded the bus in Edmonton on his way home to Winnipeg.
Caton told reprters that Vince Weiguang Li had changed seats to sit next to his victim just before the killing.
He said Vince Li seemed oblivious to others when the stabbing occurred, adding he was struck by how calm the man was.
“There was no rage or anything. He was like a robot, stabbing the guy,” he said.
Caton said he and other passengers prevented the attacker from getting off the blood-soaked bus by threatening him with makeshift weapons – a hammer and a crowbar.
“We were telling him, ‘Stay put, stay put, stay there, don’t try to come out.’ He tried to get the bus working and the bus driver disabled the bus somehow in the back. I’m not sure how he did it, and at that point, I think the police showed up,” he said.
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the asian guy understood macleod not mclean so he tried to become immortal.
Vince Li Court Hearing
A man accused of beheading and cannibalising another passenger on a Greyhound bus in Canada shook his head and said “please kill me” when a judge asked him if he wanted a lawyer today.
Manitoba Provincial Court Judge Michel Chartier ordered Vince Weiguang Li to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
Prosecutor Joyce Dalmyn, who argued for the evaluation, revealed new details about the attack, which occurred last Wednesday night.
She said Li, 40, had a plastic bag containing his victim’s ear, nose and part of a mouth in his pocket when officers arrested him.
The only response officers received from him was: ”’I have to stay on the bus forever’,” Dalmyn said.
Dalmyn also said the accused carried the victim’s severed head back and forth on the bus “taunting” officers.
Armed with a knife and a pair of scissors, he was also observed “cutting body parts from the victim and eating those body parts”, she said.
In an interview with police after his arrest, Li declined to speak for the most part, said Dalmyn. On four occasions, however, he did indicate in a low voice that he is guilty, she said.
Police are looking into information that Li may have spent as many as four days in a psychiatric facility prior to the attack, Dalmyn said.
pray for the victims, pray for the families. stop wishing harm on each other, it only makes the crime go on. mental illness is a horrible disease. pray for all the victims. i pray for you all to stop wishing harm on others.
to #43 disturbed:
there is no death penalty in canada. in this case it’s for the better. he WANTS to be killed and may commit suicide.
In this situation, a death penalty makes it a very easy cop-out for mentally unstable people to just say, “oh i think i will do some heinous act, then i have an excuse to leave this world”. Just being alive and recognizing what he did is probably very nasty for Mr. Li. But I have no sympathy, serves him right.
Don’t kill him, it’s what he wants!
To people out there making their judgments about the people on that bus. How dare you, and especially narrowing it down and calling Canadians cowards. You should educate yourself first on the differences between our two nations before you judge.
1.) We do not have the right to bare arms like citizens in the states do. Every Tom, Dick and Harry in Canada does NOT own a gun, and unless they enjoyed hunting… likely wouldn’t know how to operate one.
2.) Cowards? People are killed every day in the States, and people sit back and watch, or don’t get out of their cars and help, or don’t report their neighbours children being beaten or starved. Perfect is an illusion and don’t think for one second that America has it. There is a reason that so many Americans wear our Maple Leaf when they travel… it’s safer for YOU that way.
3.) Quit playing the American bully…the second anyone dared called an american a coward… you would be more than offended…so don’t think that a Canadian would be.
4.) QUIT TAKING THE ATTENTION AWAY FROM A YOUNG LIFE LOST IN A TERRIBLE ACT OF VIOLENCE. IF YOU DON’T HAVE ANYTHING NICE TO SAY…DON’T SAY ANYTHING AT ALL.
Find peace and strength to move on with your life, and appreciate the good things around you!
In response to ROB… first of all the people on the bus were probably terrified and their first reaction was to run. I don’t no what i would have done as I wasn’t there and have never experienced anything close to this in my life. HOWEVER there are no heroes here. Its simply a sad story! The best thing these passengers on the bus could have done is exactly what they did! Otherwise we would have had more people wounded. It doesn’t matter nor make a difference where this event took place. Crazy shit happens everywhere…even more so in the US. Look at 9/11… why did they all sit there in the plain and not do anything? They could have taken over the hijackers but in a stressful , pathetic situation all you want to do is stay as calm as you can and hope it will all be over soon. There are sick people out there, and we pass them everyday! All we can do is live with as much common sense, and caution as possible.
Also.. this video is grouse, but you knew this video is OBVIOUSLY not going to be pretty. You knew that before you clicked on PLAY! Its clearly not the poor soul Tim but some Asian women. You guys that believe it was Tim are so dum!
Wow it is pretty incredible how venomous this whole discussion has become. America vs. Canada is extremely tired and has nothing to do with the fact that a completely innocent person is dead and many completely innocent people are scarred for life.
Can you imagine being any of the survivors of this incident seeing/hearing comments like some of those posted? Do you not think they feel horrible enough already??
To those who think Americans are more heroic than Canadians – let’s not forget 9/11. Were the people on those planes all cowards for not jumping a couple of guys with box cutters? Sure, maybe a couple of people may have been injured or killed, but think of the thousands of lives that would have been saved!!! (Not to mention the tens of thousands who have lost their lives in the aftermath). The people on those planes were no more cowards than those on this bus. They were humans acting on pure adrenaline and instinct. Let’s have some humanity and compassion people!
Well, I guess we can’t all be americans and kill people in other countries with depleted uranium bombs. We have to deal with what we have.
I am from florida, i am very upset with some of the responses people are posting on here, listen a life was taken from a young men in a horrible painful way, he was a human being that had to face a criminal insane men that planned this for the start. Has nothing to do with american, canadians or chinese, please people stop being so stupid. I am very disturb by this. May this young man travel well .
Have you goofs no compassion for Tim’s family.
those people on at least one of the planes did overwhelm the attackers and crashed it to prevent it from hitting the white house.
ever heard the phrase “lets roll”?
The head is fake. It’s obvious by looking at it that it’s plastic. It’s sick that the OP mocked Mr. McLean’s death by showing a fake head. The OP is just as sick as Vince Weiguang Li.
At the time of his capture, Vince Weiguang Li had McLean’s mouth, ears and nose in his pocket. The fake head on the vid clearly has all of the above.
kiss my ass
iam not even sure if that was tims head or just somthing he found off the net, now to put somthing like that on a site ike thsi weeather it is his head or not is weird, and i would guess is though up by a mind simular to Mr. Li’s and all of this about why didnt any one stopp him i would guess by the time any one relised wha was going on with a knife like that tim had no chance. For all the people that say those people are pussys for not steoubg in i realy wish one of u had been on that bus to help tim and i wish u could bask in the glory of saving that mans life but you wwernt and u didnt see it so please do not add insult to injery by mocking candians americans or the people that had to witness the trajity on that bus that day its just not fiar
Canadians try to keep perpetrators alive so we can figure out their motives.
In retrospect it appears this guy’s motive was to sustain himself since he was going to be on the bus forever. On a trip through the Candians prairies I cn see where that came from. He hadn’t eaten in a long time either. They say every man is only seven meals from a felony. He must have been starving, wondering if the interminable trip would end. I guess his mind filled in the blanks after having seen too many “survivor” shows. I doubt there is anything the health system could have done since you can’t fall through cracks without stepping on the floor in the first place. Vince will suffer more in life than he would in death. That’s why he wants to die.
well i hope the family of the victim is doing a lil better its very hard to deal with thought of how their loved one was
killed i bet their minds is raceing like what was they doing at the time i mean all that sad shit if he didnt leave if if if even the passengers on the bus they dealing with that shit the most some off them might for ever suffer from being in public or on a bus its sad. who knows what tomorrow holds for us never make judgement because no one tryed to be a hero we have more people that came out a live.good luck to everyone and for yall that it didnt happen to thank god it was’nt you stop saying if it was me i would a done this or that its all good cause you wasnt tim…..
another thing i think that li man done that shit befor he’s probly a serial killer he was eating the poor boys body parts what was his people gonna bury after that scraps of him those actions took place befor hes 40 years old tim was not his first victim..
Did anyone read that he could have been in a phyciatric ward 4 days prior to the killing!? I think unfortunately, he planned to do this to someone. What a sick fuck. I feel SO INCREDIBLY SAD for his family/friends. What a terrible thing. Everyone on this site should stop talking shit to each other and just pray for Tim and his family! This could have happened anywhere and to anyone! God bless everyone and Tim Maclean!
I think this is an awful tragedy for Tim Mclean and his family. I hope that Vince gets his in court and they find him guilty of what he did and sentences him death.
I don’t want to judge too harshly because you never know what you’ll do in such a situation. But, in the deepest part of me, I know I could never just sit and watch something like that happen! What has happened to the men of today? Are we such cowards that we sit by and wring our hands and run like little girls? It sickens me to know that this did not happen in a dark alley, but in the view of dozens of people. And not ONE of the men there had the balls to act like a man. Shame..shame..shame!
I can’t conjure any meaning to this senseless tragedy – moreover the bickering between Canadian’s and whoever else is above the typical reaction to such a horrific, unprovoked situation. Yes, people should step in to help someone in dire need, but the reality is – alot of people don’t. Let’s not pat ourself on the back for a hypothetical moment we weren’t involved in, and the “we would have done this”. Remember, there were four planes that went down in the U.S. and the losers that took control of the planes had box cutters. Not the same deal. The real heroes were the ones that landed the last one in the field, if you want to say who did what. In situations like these it is better to feel the love for the lost and not loathe those who did not know how to help. Stop the hate!
I don’t know which is more shocking…
This crime, or the reactions of some of people commenting here.
My God, what is this world coming to?
I personally feel that the video was in bad taste. I certainly have not watched it but given the descriptions I do not feel the need to. It just goes to show how desensitized we have all become. The next section of my response is directed mainly to Rob…..
As for Canadians being mostly french speaking cowards WOW I really didn’t think that people were that uneducated. It is actually only roughly 25% of Canadians that are primarily French speaking and where it is easy to say that you would willingly jump someone that was clearly mentaly ill when faced with the situation I’m sure the decision is not as easy. I work everyday with patients who are mentally ill and I can tell you right now that I would think twice about jumping someone in that situation. I would make sure everyone else was safe. Situations like the bus attack would unfold so quickly that the victim was probably already fatally injured by the time people had a chance to react. WHy make more victims?
I feel that statements that Canadians are cowards are counter productive and originate from other convulted political issues and take away from the dignity of the victim. This could have just as easily occured anywhere in the world with the same outcome. That being said the only person that blame should be assigned to is the attacker.
My thoughts and prayers go out to the family of the victim and the people who had to witness such a terrifying event. Despite the negative feedback none of you are cowards!
Any americans dissing canadians are retards. You know whats REALLLLLY funny? LOL you guys lost 4 plane loads of people AND whoever was in those shitty buildings. FAIL
i laughed hard at that
funny thing is im not even canadian, but everyone has to admit USA is the MOST HATED country in the world. I hate you guys more than Hitler hated the Jewish Community. So to all you Americans out there reading this… get on your knees and please me bitchesss
and to this story… cmon guys…. a mans gotta eat. *grabs human leg* NUMMYYYY!!!
P.S.
yes i am the anti christ
ignore the last 2 posts that was my buddy……
Ignore those last comments…. that was my retarded buddy.
but still… fuck you americans for saying canada is cowards
Canadians are not cowards, the only cowards are the ones running YOUR country, fellow fucking americans. If your country is so great how come the person running YOUR country is the biggest motherfucking, cocksucking coward in the whole goddam world, R.I.P. to Tim Mclean, and dearest sympathy to his family, but who do YOU think is the one who should have died, your president, George motherfucking Bush. You cant call us canadians cowards, we know whats right for OUR country, we know what we should do, but its okay, all you cum-guzzling Americans can go get your oil, and when your done, drop the motherfucking bombs, because I think that Tim Mclean is a great example of how fucked up our society actually is. So you guys can just stop with the commments, and just shut the fuck up!
dude you all should just like think about this kid who died so horribly and not yourselves, your argueing about which country sucks more, we should be remembering Tim and leaving comments for him not for us, R.I.P Tim.
As far as the usa and canada debate goes this is my two cents. If you stuck a person from the North Dakota and a guy from Manitoba in a room and neither of them said were they were from you could not tell the difference. And i think it is wrong to blame people for what the government does. And i feel if the leaders call for war they should fight it out and not get the innocent to do there dirty work. But then again if you sign up for the army you know what your getting yourself into.
Now to the bus. I used to live in Brandon manitoba and i have family in Erickson Maniotba ( vincent stopped over there) i also personally know someone with Sychophrenia and if vincent has Sychophrenia it is a very horrible mental disease. If you know nothing about Sychophrenia look into it , and by the way ANYBODY can suffer from it, and pray to god you never get it
And what about the people who wanted to protest Mcleans funeral That is sick. The world has changed for the worse now even in Canada we were told not to stop for someone on the side of the road by the police because someguy stopped for a car on the side of the road and he got stabbed. Its not almost not safe to help out anybody you don’t know no matter were you live.
I miss you Tim, you are the best friend I ever had and I enjoyed all 10 years with ya bud, looking forward to seeing you in heaven.
VINCE LI DESERVES TO BE *UCKING EXCECUTED FOR KILLING MY BEST FRIEND, THATS NOTHING BUT FACT!
THIS IS THE MAIN REASON WE NEED THE DEATH PENALTY SO *UCKERS LIKE VINCE WONT GO KILLING SOMEONE AND NOT WORRY BECAUSE THEY WILL LIVE COMFTORABLY IN JAIL FOR LIFE.
OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM IS A SAD, PATHETIC, *UCKING JOKE!!!!!!!!!!
I miss you Tim, thank you for the 10 Awesome years we had together and im looking forward to seeing you again in heaven bro.
“Have you ever seen anything like this before?”
WTF dude? Yeah, people behead other passengers on buses all the time.
The canucks should’ve let him off of the bus, and apprehended him. Whether it took a crowbar to the dome or anything. Instead they allowed him to mutilate the corpse and feast. It was their fault that this became so horrifying. Those men were cowards. They were afraid of Vince Li, scared wimps who deserve to live with these horrifying images the rest of their lives.
Vince Weiguang Li Ruled Insane
A Canadian judge ruled Thursday that a man accused of beheading and cannibalizing a fellow Greyhound bus passenger is not criminally responsible due to mental illness.
The decision means Chinese immigrant Vince Li will be treated in a mental institution instead of going to prison. The family of victim Tim McLean dismissed the trial as a “rubber stamp” that allows Li to get away with murder.
“A crime was still committed here, a murder still occurred,” said Carol deDelley, McLean’s mother. “There was nobody else on that bus holding a knife, slicing up my child.”
The judge said Li should not be held criminally accountable for stabbing McLean dozens of times last July and dismembering his body while horrified passengers fled.
Justice John Scurfield said Li’s attack was “grotesque” and “barbaric” but “strongly suggestive of a mental disorder.”
“He did not appreciate the actions he committed were morally wrong. He believed he was acting in self-defense,” Scurfield said.
Both the prosecution and the defense argued Li can’t be held responsible because Li was suffering from schizophrenia and believed God wanted him to kill McLean because the young man was a force of evil.
He will be institutionalized without a criminal record and will be reassessed every year by a mental health review board to determine if he is fit for release into the community.
DeDelley said a yearly hearing is ridiculous, and that Li should be locked up for the rest of his life.
Li’s trial barely lasted two days and only heard from two witnesses, both psychiatrists, who testified he is mentally ill.
That Li killed the 22-year-old carnival worker was never in question at the trial. Li has admitted he killed McLean but pleaded not guilty.
Witnesses said Li attacked McLean unprovoked as their bus traveled at night along a desolate stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway.
An agreed statement of facts between the prosecution and defense detailed how passengers stood outside the bus as Li stabbed McLean dozens of times and beheaded and mutilated his body. Finding himself locked inside the bus, Li finally escaped through a window and was arrested.
Li then apologized and pleaded with police to kill him.
Police said McLean’s body parts were found throughout the bus in plastic bags, and the victim’s ear, nose and tongue were found in Li’s pocket.
A psychiatrist called by the prosecution Wednesday testified that Li cut up McLean’s body because he believed that he would come back to life and take revenge.
After the trial, government prosecutor Joyce Dalmyn said McLean’s family understood that she had to tell the court about Li’s condition.
“The evidence was so overwhelming that he was not criminally responsible. I absolutely had an obligation to bring that to the court’s attention, and the family understands and respects that,” Dalmyn said.
She said people who are mentally ill should not be convicted when they don’t know what they did was wrong.
“They need to be treated,” she said. “I certainly agree in Mr. Li’s case he needs to be treated for a very long time.”
McLean’s family is vowing to turn their attention to fighting the law that allows people who are found not criminally responsible to be released into the community once they are deemed well, without serving a minimum sentence in jail.
DeDelley said her son didn’t die in vain. His death highlights concerns about the justice system, she said.
“Now people are aware that there is a problem,” she said.
Off with his head!!!!!!!!!!!!
The head in that video is fake, it is also a stock photo
No one can say if passenger intervention would have saved McClean, but I do believe Americans would have tried to stop this attack. Look at what we did on 9/11 when terrorists were slashing throats on a plane over Pennsylvania. As for the idiot that says I live in the most hated country in the world, may I suggest we are the most envied country, and you’ll be asking for our help when that ice cube you call a country is attacked. The New York City police department is bigger than your Army and Air force combined. Have a Labbat’s, throw a log on the fire and watch Rachael Maddow and Kieth Oberman.
We are seeing more and more of this kind of bizarre craziness where people without a record of mental health problems crack up all of a sudden and do unspeakable things to themselves and/or others. The craziness is a symptom of a much bigger problem, the roots of which go deeper than individual psychology. It is a social problem, a symptom of modernity, the disorientation and monstrous alienation induced by technological mass society.
I feel as sorry for the perpetrator as I do for the victim. In a sense they are both victims, victims of the machine we call industrial civilisation.
The head is in bad taste, and it is FAKE – the killer ate his eyeballs, according to his mom on the CBC’s 5th Estate. What a nightmare.
the lot of you make me sick you really do
a human being has suffered the most grousom death an all you lot are doing is arguing with eachother it is pathetic stop acting like a bunch of animals and think about how much this guy must have suffered and his family for that matter you lot are just as bad as the animal rights people who are wanting to use him as an example of animal slaughter to gain awarness of there campaign ur all using the tragic thing that happend to him as an excuse to call canadians cowardley and americans dumb how selfish are you really i just hope his family and friends arnt planning on visiting this site any time soon
R.I.P tim mcclean rest well you where an insperation to alot of people loved by many and will be missed by all
I couldn’t have explained things better myself. Off with his head!
First off you are all freaking idiots. If this would never happen in america how do you explain 911, all those duchebags had were box cutters. So before you get all toby keith on us you need to realize that almost all of the general public are freaking pussies in every country, you half retarded redneck turds. Besides, Vince Li just got through watching the highlander “there can be only one”
To all the idiotic yanks berating the Canadians for being cowardly and ridiculously fantasising that they, the one true heroes of the world (have you ever actually won a war on your own?), the simple fact is this nutter suddenly assaulted the guy and with pace stabbed him repeatedly, the poor victim was killed, had the passengers not had the wherewithal and quick wit to act like they indeed had, Christ knows how many more would have been carved up.
As slaphappy points out, measly micro box cutters seemed to beat an entire plane full of heroic yanks…
Having made a vast economy from the pain of the poorer neighbouring countries enables them to purchase the most powerful long range weaponry available, by bombing the shit out of far flung shitholes with very little infrastructure from a relatively safe remote location does in no way define the term ‘brave’.
Then again, myself being British, arms me with the knowledge that in the 1st Iraq war we lost more casualties to ‘friendly fire’ from the heroic battle savvy yanks then from enemy fire.
Yanks appear to be great YeeHaw armchair generals (1000cal doughnut in hand), though admittedly they do have absolutely devasting long range warheads, they are however absolutely clueless when it comes to close quarters combat as any non-US military personnel will attest.
Always found it fascinating myself that Canadians have more guns per capita then their US inbred neighbours yet have a fraction of the murder rate,no culture, no brains with guns, tis a bad mix indeed.
Lovely! Off with their heads! Very well-done!
They should flay this guy’s skin off of his entire body, then throw him into a cage with a starving wild lion.
i WANT TO DO THE SAME THING THAT HAPPENED TO VINCENT CHIN TO VINCENT LI AND THEN START EATING VINCENT LI